Minister for Secondary Care (): On 11 December 2025, I issued
a written statement on the implementation of the McCloud remedy
for affected NHS Pension Scheme members. I updated on progress in
planning for the delivery of the remedy and reaffirmed my
commitment to deliver the remedy to the Coalition Government's
discrimination. I also committed to keeping the House informed of
progress.
The NHS Business Services Authority (NHSBSA) has now developed
and aligned its plans for the delivery of the McCloud remedy. An
Independent Review, led by Lisa Tennant, has considered those
plans and NHSBSA's capacity, capability and functions to deliver
the remedy. Lisa Tennant is now preparing a final report, which I
intend to publish in due course.
The Independent Review has found that significant progress has
been made in the NHSBSA's planning for the remedy, including the
comprehensive analysis of steps that will need to be taken to
provide each individual member their remedy choice and enact it.
Given the level of complexities in the membership of the NHS
Pension Scheme, this has been a substantial undertaking. The
review also highlights a number of dependencies which are
critical to deliver the remedy. These include:
- procuring external suppliers to bolster NHSBSA's capacity to
manually calculate remediable service statements for some
members;
- the release of software to automate statements as far as
possible, enabling future retirees to make their remedy choice at
the point of retirement, and to further automate calculations for
members who are already retired.
I remain committed to setting deadlines that prioritise the
delivery of the remedy to members who are likely to be facing
financial detriment as a consequence of the discrimination
identified by the McCloud judgment. The deadlines must be
realistic and achievable. They must also ensure that the Scheme's
ongoing performance is maintained and protected alongside the
delivery of the remedy. I expect these dependencies will have
advanced sufficiently, or to have been appropriately mitigated,
to enable me to issue new statutory deadlines with confidence
before Summer Recess.
Subject to the dependencies outlined above, NHSBSA's plans
currently forecast that:
- Retired members whose remedy period (1 April 2015 – 31 March
2022) benefits are still affected by the discrimination
identified by the McCloud judgment - in that some or all of the
accrual for that period is 2015 Scheme accrual - should receive
their remedy choice by the end of December 2027
- Retired members whose remedy period benefits are no longer
affected by this discrimination – in that all of their accrual
for the period is 1995/2008 Scheme accrual – should receive their
remedy choice by the end of June 2030
- All active and deferred members who are due a remedial
pension saving statement should have received this by the end of
March 2027.
I have asked NHSBSA to take steps to communicate to members when
they can expect to receive their remedy choice, and which
deadlines, when issued, will apply to them.
NHSBSA continue to issue remediable service statements and
remedial pension saving statements in line with its delivery
plans. To date, 10,462 remediable service statements have been
issued to retired members who are most likely to be facing
financial detriment. Of those, 5,804 have been returned and 5,368
decisions have been enacted. A further 11,457 have been
calculated and are scheduled to be issued in alignment with the
NHSBSA's delivery plan. In addition, a remediable pension savings
statement has been issued to 121,824 members, and 19,952 are
outstanding.
